To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.
He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
That's the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that's uncontrollable.
A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.